Khmer classical dance has endured over a millennium in Cambodia, surviving even the brutality and mass killings of the Khmer ...
Douglas Latchford was a leading scholar of Khmer antiquities. But he was also charged with smuggling. Cambodian deputy Prime Minister Sok An shakes hands with British Khmer art collector Douglas ...
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Khmer Empire: Rise, glory and fall

The Khmer Empire was one of the most powerful and advanced civilizations of the medieval world, ruling much of Southeast Asia for over 600 years. Centered around Angkor, it engineered massive temple ...
The spirit of the Cambodian people is intertwined with the land as much as the land is a part of the Cambodian Nation, so any ...
Driven by a deep love for the Pali Khmer language and a desire to pass on his ethnic culture to the younger generation, for ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by UNESCO to its World Heritage List. The three locations ...
During the Khmer Rouge regime, I was put in prison at the age of 15 for picking mushrooms in the rice fields to feed my pregnant sister. Under the Khmer Rouge, everything belonged to the Revolution — ...
The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy ...
Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after ...
In times of national crisis, whether due to war or any force majeure issues involving religious leadership, Khmer Buddhist ...